| Sesame Street | |||||||
| Big Bird and Gabi play airplanes | |||||||
| Air date | January 8, 1996 | ||||||
| Season | Season 27 (1995-1996) | ||||||
| Written by | Josh Selig | ||||||
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| Picture | Segment | Description |
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SCENE 1 | Big Bird zooms by the Fix-It Shop with his wings spread apart, confusing Maria and Gabi. He tells them he's pretending to be a little airplane, a new fad all the kids are doing, then points to the following for evidence... |
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Song | "I'm a Little Airplane" (First: Episode 3266) |
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SCENE 1 cont'd | Maria observes that not all the kids are doing it, using Gabi as an example. Gabi promptly starts to fly around the worktable. "You were saying, Maria?" comments Big Bird. |
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Animation | Airplanes carve the capital and lowercase A. (First: Episode 3209) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Cookie Monster asks Jawhara what letter they're holding. (First: Episode 3234) |
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Film | A for action, acrobat, art, artichoke, and applause. (First: Episode 3266) |
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Cartoon | Dinah from South Carolina exchanges letters with her friend Ling Lu in China. Artist: ArtistMike (First: Episode 2727) |
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Film | A girl narrates a film of helping her dad, a pilot, fly a small plane. They fly through New York City, past the World Trade Center and the Statue of Liberty. |
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SCENE 2 | Big Bird and Gabi continue to fly around the yard and sing a song about the different ways they can fly. |
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Animation | Arnold uses his imagination. Artist: Craig Bartlett (First: Episode 2754) |
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Muppets | Ernie sings "Imagine That" about things that he sometimes imagines to be: first a knight in shining armor who battles a dragon, then a sailor, and finally, himself. (First: Episode 2142) |
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Cartoon | Number Creatures #20 (First: Episode 2687) |
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Film | Growing Numbers #20 (First: Episode 2967) |
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Cartoon | The Bellhop is sent to the grocery store to get twenty grapefruits. He counts to 20 on the way there so that he can remember the quantity, but forgets what item he was sent for. (First: Episode 2533) |
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Song | Joe Raposo sings "What Do You Do With a Fruit?" (First: Episode 2050) |
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SCENE 3 | The two "airplanes" find Tarah and invite her to join. Tarah thinks she's too old to play along, but the others find this ridiculous. (Big Bird: "Are you too old to enjoy life?!") Tarah is convinced to join and becomes a "Tarah-plane." |
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Film | A girl helps her father train for a wheelchair race. (First: Episode 3275) |
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Cartoon | A juggling bear helps a little girl learn to juggle. (First: Episode 1834) |
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Muppets / Celebrity | Jim Carrey shows Elmo and Telly how he expresses his emotions - with his feet (in speed-induced footage, no less). (First: Episode 3023) |
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Cartoon | Lazy Wanda's knees converse with each other. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 1075) |
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Film | A girl learns how to jump rope. (First: Episode 3397) |
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Animation | The word AIRPORT (with photographs of such) (First: Episode 3373) |
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SCENE 4 | Carlo takes lunch orders in Hooper's Store from Michael and another kid when Big Bird and Gabi fly in, pretending it's their airport. "We just flew all the way from around the corner," Big Bird states. Gabi quips, "Yeah, and boy are our arms tired!" earning her a rimshot. Carlo allows them to land, but it's not too long before they start flying around the store again. |
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Cartoon | A dinosaur tries to move around a rock. (First: Episode 2744) |
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Muppets | Muppet & Kid Moment — Grover asks Chelsea, "What is love?" (First: Episode 2397) |
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Cartoon | I Love You, in American Sign Language Artist: Steve Finkin (First: Episode 1170) |
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Film | Kids rehearse a large group African dance in the park, get their faces painted, and perform. (First: Episode 3079) |
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Cartoon | A map of Africa morphs into the shape of animals that are found there. (First: Episode 2627) |
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SCENE 5 | Carlo asks the two planes to keep the noise level down, but they can't; airports are noisy places! |
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Muppets | Monster on the Spot: Here and There — Telly Monster reports from the library, where it's quiet. His co-host, Deborah Starr, is at the airport, where it's loud. (First: Episode 2864) |
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Cartoon | The Typewriter: A for airplane (First: Episode 0770) |
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Film | Wegman's dogs form a letter A. (First: Episode 3292) |
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Cartoon | Speech Balloon: A for Ape (First: Episode 0006) |
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Muppets | Little Chrissy and the Alphabeats sing "Gonna Rock You to Sleep." (First: Episode 2980) |
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Cartoon | The moon listens to everyone say "Good night" in different languages. (First: Episode 2243) |
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Film | "Simple Pleasures" by Bobby McFerrin is played over footage of a girl trying to play frisbee with a dog on the beach. (First: Episode 2876) |
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SCENE 6 | Carlo's customers join Big Bird and Gabi's game, so Carlo assumes the role of control tower and tells them they can't stay flying around going "Nyooowww." They all fly out, but return with two more kids for their game - only this time, everybody's going "Zoooom!" (Carlo: "I wonder if they have this problem at JFK.") |
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Cartoon | A man talks about how much he loves his bones. Artist: Bruce Cayard (First: Episode 2628) |
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Muppets | Monsterpiece Theater: The Postman Always Rings Twice — Grover waits for the postman to deliver his important letter. (First: Episode 2729) |
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Animation | Luxo Sr. examines a box. Luxo Jr. pops out of the box, demonstrating "surprise." (First: Episode 2851) |
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Film | Kids talk about their CATs. (First: Episode 3308) |
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Cartoon | A cat desperately tries to open a can of cat food by himself while his mistress is on the phone. Animation by Dan Haskett (First: Episode 2151) |
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SCENE 7 | Carlo tells Maria about his trouble getting rid of the pretend airplanes. Maria wonders if she should do something about it, but Carlo says he's got this covered. He once again becomes the control tower, telling them they have to find someplace else to turn into an airport, so everybody flies out. |
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SCENE 7 cont'd | Maria steps out of the store to find that their new airport turns out to be the Fix-It Shop! Carlo announces the sponsors, throwing in an extra "Nyooww!" to an annoyed Maria. |
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COMING SOON | Coming soon on Sesame Street: Elmo rushes to Telly, having heard about his new baseball cap. However, the hat's peak knocks Elmo out when Telly accidentally hits him with it. |
Notes
- The episode was later re-aired in Season 29 as Episode 3679.
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